‘Set’: 22yo Aussie Subway worker buys 2 homes

A young Aussie woman who owns two investment properties -buying the first one aged just 18 – says it all came down to one basic rule she followed meticulously. Megan Tester, now 22, has done something other Aussies can only dream of after securing the two properties that are now worth about $800,000. The Gold Coast resident picked up her first property four years ago before using the equity from that one-bedroom unit in Surfers Paradise to fund the second. Ms Tester said her ability to get into the market early wasn’t about having a huge income or the backing of a wealthy family. Megan Tester owns to investment properties at the age of 22. Picture: Supplied “It was all about spending as little as possible and saving as much of my income as I could,” she told Yahoo News. For Ms Tester, that savings process began at the age of 14 when she got her first job at Subway. Because she was living at home without huge household expenses or bills, Ms Tester was able to save most of her casual wage and eventually put it towards her first property purchase. “From an early age, I developed the mindset that when I got paid, that money wasn’t there to be spent; it was there to be put away immediat...